c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
"Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature." — Harold Coffin
"It's so funny looking back, but my so-called overnight success actually took 15 years. I remember when I didn't have any money, and my only car was mom's Hyundai." — Criss Angel
"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived." — George S. Patton
"Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of." — Russell Baker
"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home." — James A. Michener
"It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself." — Dale Earnhardt
"If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise." — William Butler Yeats
"Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated." — Mary Todd Lincoln
"In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country." — Colin Powell
"People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic." — Janice Dickinson
"Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice." — Dave Barry
"I try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that's all that matters." — Norah Jones
"I'm cool with the way I look, I'm not an ugly dog, but I don't see myself as a stud or anything." — Seann William Scott
"The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost." — M. Scott Peck
"Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have." — Oprah Winfrey
"My priority is to turn people - especially kids - on to sports and being active so they don't even have to think about it being good for their health. If people participate for the fun of it, and believe me - it is fun, then fitness programs will be much more successful." — Alan Thicke
"Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile." — Cameron Diaz
"The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment." — Andy Rooney
"Thank God I never got in a fight. All of the jock dudes hated me, but all of their girlfriends thought I was nice so they wouldn't touch me. It was infuriating to them." — Mark Hoppus
"Faith never makes a confession." — Henry David Thoreau
"A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises." — Andre Maurois
"We all feel really blessed to have been with my dad for these 85 years." — Beau Bridges
"I'm turning into a stricter dad." — David Duchovny
"Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are." — Julius Charles Hare
"You know how old I am? I'm so old, I remember when Letterman used to be funny and it was presidents who were serious. That's how old I am." — Rush Limbaugh
"The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there." — George Bernard Shaw
"Mayors could never get away with the kind of nonsense that goes on in Washington. In our world, you either picked up the trash or you didn't. You either moved an abandoned car or you didn't. You either filled a pothole or you didn't. That's what we do every day. And we know how to get this stuff done." — Michael Nutter
"So China will be having to make some choices as to whose side it wants to be on. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a major improvement in our relationship with them, if they choose correctly." — Fred Thompson
"I am not a morning person." — Laurell K. Hamilton
"Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith." — Steve Jobs
"Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it's our business." — Gwyneth Paltrow
"After 14 years, it better be a real marriage, you know? We do have a great time together. We are really lucky." — Kyra Sedgwick
"The technology backbone is no longer an afterthought." — Nick Price
"Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library." — Henri Frederic Amiel
"It is vital that the United States maintains open lines of communication with our allies. We must assure them of our commitment to eradicating global terrorism wherever it may reside or wherever it's given haven." — George Allen
"I'm not a kid. You don't get in this business for anonymity. It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall, but at the same time, I'm kind of ready for a little bit of it, but I worry for my little one, and my family - their privacy. That's what I'm more protective of." — Hugh Jackman
"In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal." — Carol P. Christ
"Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family." — Stephen Covey
"I've never written a movie, I'm not in the movie business. I go out to L.A. and I'm like everyone else wandering around in a daze hoping I see movie stars. I write the novels that the movies are based on, and that feels like enough of a job for me." — Justin Cronin
"I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It's crucial for good health and longevity to instill in your children sound eating habits from an early age." — Cat Cora
"Where there is a will there is a lawsuit." — Addison Mizner
"The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes." — Benjamin Disraeli
"When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age." — Victor Hugo
"A molecular manufacturing technology will let us build molecular surgical tools, and those tools will, for the first time, let us directly address the problems at the very root level." — Ralph Merkle
"Never go on trips with anyone you do not love." — Ernest Hemingway
"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it." — Bob Hope
"Broadway is such a diverse community. Everybody knows how I believe, and everyone believes, and it's not a big deal. But in Hollywood, if you talk about politics - especially if you're a Republican - or spirituality, it's just not something people want to hear about." — Kristin Chenoweth
"Do dirt, get dirt. So I treat people with the same respect that I want." — DMX
"Non-profits must become deeply engaged in the ways that their donor communities are using social technology." — Simon Mainwaring
"It can make you sad to look at pictures from your youth. So there's a trick to it. The trick is not to look at the later pictures." — Jerry Stiller
"I'm not really conservative. I'm conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don't any more." — Clint Eastwood
"Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?" — Augustus Hare
"I don't watch reality TV. I'm cool." — Dave Attell
"I'm a dad, and I no longer see a way for my kids to even inherit the money that I'm making, let alone go out there, have an idea, and create it in their own lifetime." — Glenn Beck
"I don't really believe in diets. I love food... If I deprive myself, I'm going to want it more. I snack on yogurt, raw cashews and cherry tomatoes." — Nicole Scherzinger
"All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena." — Dean Inge
"The thing you can't let go of is gravity. The reality of gravity in writing. If someone says something really mean in a sitcom, and the next wave isn't a reaction to the reality of that, you start losing relatability. In a lot of romantic comedies, they throw out the rules of life." — Michael Patrick King
"Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate all that was once so beautiful is dead." — Conrad Aiken
"A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together." — Louis C. K.
"Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere." — Chaim Potok
"I had never really dated. I've always been a relationship kind of person." — Bruce Willis
"When I travel, I love speaking to women around the world about the things that inspire them, the fashions they like, what makes something good and what would make it even better." — Maria Sharapova
"But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross." — Bono
"Much learning shows how little mortals know much wealth, how little wordings enjoy." — Edward Young
"To be honest, I haven't seen a lot of the current crop of teen movies because there's only so much time and there's nothing that really drives me to do it." — Curtis Armstrong
"For the first few years of my life my mom used to cut my hair so there were a lot of bowl-cut hair styles." — Ne-Yo
"It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas." — David Byrne
"When I was in high school, I don't know that I really had big dreams." — Alan Jackson
"How sweet it is!" — Jackie Gleason
"However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries." — Ibrahim Rugova
"The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future." — Stephen Ambrose
"Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half." — Plato
"People didn't wasn't the People's party to come in to power again, so they saw NS a viable alternative not us, because everyone knew we were not ready." — Imran Khan
"The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue." — Jim Wallis
"If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now." — James Lovelock
"Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God." — Edwin Louis Cole
"My first memory of the Rolling Stones is listening to 'Satisfaction' at a sixth-grade slumber party at a friend's house in Ankara, Turkey, where my family was living at the time. In the middle of our sleepover, my friend's dad stopped the record when he heard the words 'girlie action!'" — Gayle King
"Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death." — Elbert Hubbard
"People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet." — Alain Prost
"I have girls who are concerned about how they look compared to models or what have you. It's my responsibility to teach them that beauty is more than superficial." — Martina McBride
"For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination." — Hugo Pratt
"You're blessed if you have the strength to work." — Mahalia Jackson
"I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be." — Danny Boyle
"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value." — Albert Einstein
"Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger." — Julianna Baggott
"As the leader of twelve apostles, even Jesus had more executive experience than Obama." — Ann Coulter
"In all the movies I'm in love with someone in my head. There's always love in a film somewhere. It doesn't matter even if it's an action movie." — Channing Tatum
"The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too." — Paul Allen
"By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth." — George Carlin
"When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith." — Richard Morris
"I don't walk around with fear. I walk around with strength. I believe in cause and effect." — Melanie Griffith
"I love my mom and dad." — Taylor Momsen
"I have a friend that is a WWII buff, and we sat and talked a lot about stuff like the war and the reasons behind it, and you now it's all in the uniform. Once you're in it, it usually does all the work for you." — Ryan Gosling
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse." — John Stuart Mill
"I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never handled money. You know, there was always a couple of bodyguards behind me, who took care if I wanted... I needed pencils for school, I needed a notebook, they were the ones who were taking out the money. I was constantly guarded." — Bharati Mukherjee
"People spend so much time in their cars, and it's a legal way to have fun by speeding a little bit or testing yourself a little bit, and you get to invest in your car. For some people, it becomes their baby." — Jordana Brewster
"Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream." — Tom Waits
"The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral." — H. L. Mencken
"Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty." — Marcus Tullius Cicero
"'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work." — Harlan Coben
"I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity." — Billy Corgan
"Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time." — Jim Rohn
"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention." — Jim Rohn
"To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen." — Tom Robbins
"I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings." — Anne Stevenson
"I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else." — Kurt Cobain
"Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life." — Daniel Kahneman
"My dad used to say, 'You have to become part of the machine to beat the machine,' and there's some validity in it. But honestly, even when I'm inside the machine, you still see me. I stick out a little bit." — Michael Shannon
"Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure." — Fran Lebowitz
"I grew up loving Walter Payton. My dad used to always show us film of him." — Shaun Alexander
"In Rio Bravo when Duke makes love to Feathers, the scene dissolves to the next morning where we see him putting on his vest and almost humming. It was subtle, but you knew what happened. Give me a towel and some blankets any day!" — Angie Dickinson
"The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action." — Denis Diderot
"People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!" — Don Johnson
"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security." — Thomas Paine
"The reality is that what you find out is that your head is the medicine. If your head is not in the right place and you don't think positively, all the medicine technology in the world is not going to work." — Herbie Mann
"The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy." — Carly Fiorina
"I don't have to have faith, I have experience." — Joseph Campbell
"Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken." — Abigail Adams
"Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances." — Jim Sensenbrenner
"My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results." — Frank R. Wolf
"Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men." — George Santayana
"What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?" — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views." — James McGreevey
"I'm bad on Valentine's Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine o'clock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. I'm in Toys'R'Us all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing." — Jamie Foxx
"Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise." — Stanislav Grof
"You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you're so happy." — Shaun White
"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind." — Buddha
"Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians." — Ariel Sharon
"People can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go." — Ann Wilson
"A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning." — Brad Henry
"It's hard for us in our stores to be a leader in technology." — Lee Scott
"In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy." — Michael Kinsley
"Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins." — Elie Wiesel
"You can't stop technology or science, and it is snowballing quicker than ever. Something's got to come to a head. How? Who knows? But it will." — Billy Burke
"You can heal your body with food." — Stacy Keibler
"Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom." — Don DeLillo
"The want of money is the root of all evil." — Samuel Butler
"I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." — Isaac Newton
"Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children." — Michael Morpurgo
"When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music." — Denis Diderot
"If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out." — George Brett
"I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone." — Adriana Lima
"That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it." — Lukas Foss
"137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy." — Doc Hastings
"The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us." — Paul Valery
"My mom was onstage when she was pregnant with me." — Zosia Mamet
"Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people." — Matt Blunt
"A true king is neither husband nor father he considers his throne and nothing else." — Pierre Corneille
"To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it's a thrill to start a friendship even up." — Christopher Knight
"All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations." — Marge Piercy
"I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols." — Tori Amos
"If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society." — Strom Thurmond
"I've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has people tremble in his presence." — Emir Kusturica
"The groundwork of all happiness is health." — Leigh Hunt
"Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven." — Walter Savage Landor
"I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad." — Andrew Greeley
"I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life." — Mitch Hedberg
"I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am." — Alessandro Nivola
"My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous. I said they might not even like it, and say his daddy's movie is wack, but they loved it." — Blair Underwood
"Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it." — Elia Kazan
"When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom." — Natan Sharansky
"No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person." — Bernadette Peters
"TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary with independent films, you just can't." — Jessica Lange
"I know that throughout their history, the people of the United States defended their freedom, their liberty, their justice, and their rights - if need be - with their lives. I think their courage is so admirable." — Lee Myung-bak
"Never was anything great achieved without danger." — Niccolo Machiavelli
"If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies." — Karl Kraus
"A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day." — Grandma Moses
"Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?" — Igor Stravinsky
"An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along." — Andre Maurois
"My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number." — Jamie Lee Curtis
"There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals." — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"It was an amazing adventure, it was my dream to be in an American musical... I really hope you are going to love what you are going to see." — Marion Cotillard
"In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport." — Julia Child
"A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge." — Peter Drucker
"Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God." — Charles Stanley
"The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion." — Thomas Carlyle
"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?" — Confucius
"Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense." — Carl Sagan
"To understand me, you have to meet me and be around me. And then only if I'm in a good mood - don't meet me in a bad mood." — Avril Lavigne
"I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually." — Frank Sinatra
"I have a wonderful respect for old people." — Craig Kilborn
"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men." — Abraham Lincoln
"I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power." — Arthur C. Clarke
"I got up one Christmas morning and we didn't have nothing to eat. We didn't have an apple, we didn't have an orange, we didn't have a cake, we didn't have nothing." — Muddy Waters
"I'll let you in on a secret: I can't stand Jay Ward. I hate being compared to Rocky and Bullwinkle. It's just a different style of humor." — John Kricfalusi
"Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war." — Tony Blair
"It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly." — Margaret Mead
"The great thing about baseball is the causality is easy to determine and it always falls on the shoulders of one person. So there is absolute responsibility. That's why baseball is psychologically the cruelest sport and why it really requires psychological resources to play baseball - because you have to learn to live with failure." — Michael Mandelbaum
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." — Confucius
"Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around." — Sylvia Earle
"Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature." — Andrea Arnold
"I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry." — Josh Billings
"If my daughter wants to get into this business, I would support that decision. She's going to have a hard time not being in it. She loves food and she's around it all the time." — Bobby Flay
"Over my lifetime, the car had actually transcended the fact that it is a car. It has become a venue." — Eric Bana
"There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That's why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves." — Jesse Ventura
"I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job." — Matt Damon
"My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me." — Franz Kafka
"I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion." — Malcolm X
"I'm opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I don't waver." — Douglas Wilson
"I love being a dad, it keeps me fit and inspired and children are so funny. They always supply you with acting material!" — Wesley Snipes
"Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning." — Jane Harrison
"My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles." — Benjamin Disraeli
"At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports." — Willie Mays
"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win." — Sun Tzu
"Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant." — Tony Robbins
"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." — T. S. Eliot
"The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals but most people stuff themselves like cattle." — Heraclitus
"I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place." — Zhang Ziyi
"Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust." — Karl Kraus
"Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become." — Coretta Scott King
"I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man." — Gene Tierney
"That's the definition of 'success' for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective." — Rush Limbaugh
"Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago." — Gaylord Nelson
"Use gentle means before you come to extremity, and whatever lesson you work him, and never take above half his strength, nor ride him till he is weary, but a little at a time and often." — William Cavendish
"We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people." — George Lincoln Rockwell
"To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love." — Alex Grey
"A gun can be dangerous. But a gun can protect you, you can hunt for food with it - you know, the tool itself is a tool. The intention of the party using the tool is a part of the process, right? You know: the knife cuts the steak, stabs the person, saves somebody from danger, cuts somebody out of a car." — Peter Guber
"You want to keep intelligence separate from policy." — Bobby Ray Inman
"It's simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they're done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it's what they see. That's where my head is at." — Denzel Washington
"You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it." — Robert Plant
"Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities." — Iain Banks
"Well, I just said that Jesus and I were both Jewish and that neither of us ever had a job, we never had a home, we never married and we traveled around the countryside irritating people." — Kinky Friedman
"From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity." — Padma Lakshmi
"The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages." — Art Spiegelman
"The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall." — Mitch Hedberg
"My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives." — Rita Rudner
"Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things." — Adam Sandler
"Mine is the least fat diet in the world." — Pierre Dukan
"Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise." — Marcus Aurelius
"To good and true love fear is forever affixed." — Francois Rabelais
"To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness." — Thomas Traherne
"That feeds anger, and I mean when we went and at last thank heavens got towards peace in Northern Ireland we went for justice within Northern Ireland as well as using security well, as well as a political settlement, but surely that is the lesson." — Clare Short
"Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education." — Mark Kennedy
"I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don't think you can fake it." — Keira Knightley
"We're adults. We're the ones who should teach the kids what's good to eat. I don't think the government should ever regulate what we eat at home, but we're feeding them in school with tax dollars. Quite frankly, if my tax dollars are being spent to feed kids, I'd rather feed them better food." — Tom Colicchio
"I love being on stage if I'm not on a set. If I'm at home, I'm usually in my office editing or reconstructing my website or whatever it may be. I just love putting creativity into a performance, so if the right script comes along, and I certainly am reading comedies and dramas now, then I'm ready willing and able to give it a shot." — Dane Cook
"Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there." — Bonnie Raitt
"Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty." — Galileo Galilei
"In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims." — William Greider
"The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors." — Tony Robbins
"The purpose of all war is peace." — Augustine of Hippo
"Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is. It's not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl." — Kenny Chesney
"We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out." — Tommy Chong
"You teach best what you most need to learn." — Richard Bach
"Our strength in finance has led us to set up an international financial centre with medium and long-term objectives, especially to develop Islamic financial and insurance services." — Hassanal Bolkiah
"What has made America amazing has been the fact that throughout our history, throughout the more than 200 years of our history, there have been men and women of courage who stood up and decided it was more important to look out for the future of their children and their grandchildren than their own political futures." — Scott Walker
"I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes." — J. B. Priestley
"I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow." — Ian MacKaye
"Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love." — George Eliot
"The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like there's this one set of rules to follow to be a pop star and I think, 'Well, you say I'm a pop star, so maybe that's not true.'" — Kelly Clarkson
"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'" — Erich Fromm
"But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest." — Damien Hirst
"There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American." — O. Henry
"But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake." — Pat Robertson
"I don't go to the cool, trendy restaurants. I go to either the holes in the wall or the super-fancy restaurants where there are no cool people." — Tyra Banks
"You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to do. And with the Pet Shop Boys it's primarily about the songs, it's about song writing." — Chris Lowe
"What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos." — Herbert Read
"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." — Epicurus
"No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book." — Ellen Glasgow
"It's amazing what a spray-on tan will do." — David Cook
"Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are." — George W. Bush
"I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests." — Pablo Neruda
"I mean you might say he had a travelling post office, but also Barney was very, very active. He was a legal officer for the NAACP and they had a lot of problems after Pease." — Betty Hill
"Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make." — Donald Trump
"Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri." — Francis Parkman
"Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future." — Albert Camus
"He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them." — Charles Kingsley
"Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality." — George Santayana
"The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power." — Theodor Adorno
"A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up." — Albert Schweitzer
"Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity. We think 'we're all in this together' is a better philosophy than 'you're on your own.'" — William J. Clinton
"The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don't do something to protect our manufacturing base here at home, it is going to be hard to buy any retail goods." — Lindsey Graham
"To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside, where it functions best." — Margaret Thatcher
"A great city is that which has the greatest men and women." — Walt Whitman
"I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories." — Connie Stevens
"Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds." — Percy Bysshe Shelley
"My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me." — Bobby Darin
"There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls." — Marilyn Monroe
"And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was very, very friendly." — Keith Richards
"I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling." — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
"He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world." — Horace
"Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now." — Ben Stein
"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes." — Ludwig Wittgenstein
"As a kid, I always loved serialized books. It's the reason why people love 'Harry Potter.' Serialization is amazing. It works in television. It works in film and it works in books. Especially when you're a young kid, you get attached to these characters." — Mindy Kaling
"We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on." — Jon Bon Jovi
"Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly." — Diogenes
"I'm a car fanatic and each morning I wake up with a smile on my face, whether I'm commentating on the Formula One or at Silver Hatch racetrack in Roary the Racing Car." — Murray Walker
"It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous." — Aldous Huxley
"There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor." — David Duchovny
"It's like learning a language you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar." — Fred Frith
"A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art." — Benjamin Disraeli
"My biggest blast-off hit was 'You Raise Me Up.' If you ever have a wedding or a funeral, it's a good pick." — Josh Groban
"There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation." — Brian Ferneyhough
"I compare it to being in a car accident. There's so much adrenaline rushing through you that you remember being in the accident but you don't remember any of the details." — Brooke Langton
"Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor." — James Russell Lowell
"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet." — Bobby Unser
"Being No. 1. It's talked about all of the time in hip-hop. 'I'm still No. 1! I'm the best! I'm the greatest of all time!' It's the same mentality in sports." — Michael Rapaport
"Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality." — Phillip E. Johnson
"Normal people don't just wake up in the morning and say I think it'd be a good idea to run for president of the United States." — Jon Huntsman, Jr.
"I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to show everybody that freedom isn't free, that everybody has an obligation to the nation as a community." — Robert M. Gates
"I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted." — Robyn Hitchcock